日本語 English

Made with Blood, Sweat, and Tears

Speaker: Lyndsey Walsh
Date: January 28th 2025, 19:00 JST
Location: BioClub Tokyo & Zoom

Working with life can get messy. There is an ever-growing tension that forms between the desires and needs of different organisms, as well as emerging creatures and their creators. The technofication of life as a material to be grown in surplus, to manipulate, and to exploit has further complicated these relationships. In this talk, artist Lyndsey Walsh will share insights from their practice, which sets out to make space for Crip, Queer, and Intersectional Feminist perspectives to question the cultural binaries of human-non-human, diseased-healthy, and life-machine. From stem cells to cancer, GMO algae to chickens, and technoscience to magic, Lyndsey will attempt to share their approach to embracing the blood, sweat, and tears that gets shed along the way in technological pursuits to imagine new futures and redefine what it means to be alive.

About Lyndsey

Lyndsey Walsh is an artist, writer, and researcher from the United States and based in Berlin, Germany. Lyndsey has a Bachelor’s in Individualized Studies from New York University and a Master’s in Biological Arts with Distinction from the SymbioticA Centre of Excellence in Biological Arts at the University of Western Australia. Lyndsey’s practice fuses speculative narratives with autoethnographic investigations into the ruptures created by technology in the corporality of culture. Lyndsey sets out to question the cultural binaries of human-non-human, diseased-healthy, and life-machine using Crip, Queer, and intersectional feminist frameworks. Currently, Lyndsey is an artist resident of Tokyo Arts and Space Residency program. They are also the first and only residing artist of the Department of Experimental Biophysics at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin. Their work has been featured in events and with institutions such as Frieze Art Week New York, the Humboldt Forum, the Ural Biennial, the Berlin Biennale, Athens Digital Arts Festival, and Transmediale/CTM and has received the S+T+ARTS Prize 2024 Honorary Mention.

Links